S1 in Secondary School....

For those who is not aware, my S1 entered secondary school when the new school year began 2 weeks ago. He is now in Year 7. Yes. Seems abit quick. If we are still in Malaysia, he would still be in Std 5 till end of this year... but as the cut-off date for the British system is end-Aug, he is one of the youngest in his class.

Although the secondary school shares the same campus as the primary one, it is still quite a major change for him. School uniforms are different....and he now has a tutor, and numerous subject teachers. He is also required to change classrooms for different subjects. Worse...as there are many different subjects, there are two timetables instead of the usual weekly one.

He is allocated a locker ...which unfortunately seems to be too high for his reach. He came home after the first day complaining that he had to JUMP and JUMP to open his locker. If this is going to pose further problems, I might have to write in to request a lower locker.

Music tuition, i.e. in his case the Alto Saxophone starts today. It's a continuation from last term. Somehow, there were alot of missed class last term (not due to S1's fault...just that there were alot of holidays on his tuition days and other school functions) and he has not progressed much in this. Hopefully, this year will be better. Not too sure if he managed to have a saxophone loaned from school. If not, I will have BIG headache. BTW, V... Sure you don't use the saxophone that often, right? Can we please borrow it?

As for MFL (Modern Foreign Language), he has decided to take up Mandarin and Japanese. He had quite a number of merits from the Mandarin teacher in the first week. His comment was "I managed to name all the body parts", which I retorted bluntly "if you don't know the body parts, I will KILL You!!!". Correct or not? For a person who studied 2 1/2 years at Puay Chai, and then going for classes twice a week for the next 2 years; should be able to name the body parts in Mandarin, right?? The Mandarin is quite basic...but at least it will lead to proper GCSE examinations in time ( I think! I hope!). From what I hear, as part of the Mandarin program, the kids will go to Beijing for two weeks during the Easter holidays ...which the parents have to pay EXTRA , of course!!

Remember I mentioned that S1 had a joint 11th birthday party with his friend, TL back in PJ? (Their birthdays are one day apart)

See how much they've grown!

S1 and his Friend, TL

Joint 11th Birthday